I'm trying the native ZFS module on my home fileserver. So far with pretty disappointing results.
Writing degrades quickly to 5-10 MB/s, and reading is just plain ridiculous at 300 KB/s. I need som help tuning this thing. Please?
Some details:
- Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS 64bit, 8GB RAM.
- Installed ubuntu-zfs metapackage version "3~lucid (ubuntu-zfs)" (0.6.0.1rc1)
- zpool: 4 x 2TB Samsung spinpoint F4 disks in a RAIDZ1:
Code:tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 sda ONLINE 0 0 0 sdb ONLINE 0 0 0 sdc ONLINE 0 0 0 sdd ONLINE 0 0 0
When I start copying files into the zpool, things start out great, but then degrades quickly. When the zfs kernel module has aloocated all system memory, kswapd0 steps into action and performance of the whole system grinds to a near-halt.
Example output of iostat of a file-copy on a freshly booted system:
I would expect write performance to be 50+ MB/s or something.Code:# zpool iostat 5 capacity operations bandwidth pool alloc free read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- tank 1,34T 5,91T 2,13K 18 1,46M 1,86M tank 1,34T 5,91T 3,65K 438 2,48M 51,9M tank 1,34T 5,91T 3,53K 635 2,39M 73,0M tank 1,34T 5,91T 3,34K 784 2,27M 90,6M tank 1,34T 5,91T 3,68K 379 2,48M 44,9M tank 1,34T 5,91T 3,56K 800 2,41M 94,8M tank 1,34T 5,91T 3,08K 412 2,09M 49,0M tank 1,34T 5,91T 2,75K 1,02K 1,86M 81,0M tank 1,34T 5,91T 2,47K 13,8K 1,66M 24,5M tank 1,34T 5,91T 1,65K 61,4K 1,12M 35,5M tank 1,34T 5,91T 2,73K 50,1K 1,85M 29,1M tank 1,34T 5,91T 2,67K 34,8K 1,81M 20,4M tank 1,34T 5,91T 2,80K 50,0K 1,90M 29,1M tank 1,34T 5,91T 2,62K 31,8K 1,78M 18,7M tank 1,34T 5,91T 2,27K 18,3K 1,55M 10,9M tank 1,34T 5,91T 2,51K 16,4K 1,70M 9,59M
I tried to limit the memory consumption by setting the zfs_arc_max to 5.000.000.000 (5GB, right?) with this:
That doesn't seem to do anything. After rebooting it is reset to zero. So I guess I'm not doing this right? How do I tell ZFS to limit memory usage? And how do I make it stick?Code:# echo "5000000000" > /sys/module/zfs/parameters/zfs_arc_max
Also, somewhere it was suggested to disable primarycache:
That seems to make kswapd0 slightly less active. General performance is pretty much the same...Code:# zfs set primarycache=none tank
Please help
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